North American Place Names North Research Paper

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The city of St. John in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, was named after St. John the Baptist, given that it was first sighted by French cartographer Samuel de Champlain on Saint John the Baptist's Day in 1604 . This territory is believed to have originally been inhabited by Passamaquoddy First Nations people (Winsor 1884, 107).

The city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, means holy faith in Spanish. The settlement was one of the first Spanish provinces in North America, later coming to be disputed between some of the most influential colonial powers on the continent and by the Native Americans themselves.

French Canadians were among the first to colonize the present day state of Missouri. The state got its name from the tribe that originally lived between its borders.

One of the most recognized French-speaking provinces in North America is Quebec. Its name comes from the Algonquin First Nations vocabulary, with the term kebec meaning "where the river narrows.
" The settlement got its name after French Explorer Samuel de Champlain chose it as a colonial outpost in 1608.

The city of Illinois, from the state of Chicago, got its name from the Illinois tribe that lived in the territory previous to European settlement.

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